Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.