So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.