I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!