If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.