Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."

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

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.