Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, ‘God, wasn't it wonderful.’

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.