One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.