It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.