Laugh as much as you can.
I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.
Look for the beauty in things.
Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.
A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.
If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
The desire to reach hearts is wise.
I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don’t laugh enough. I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold, that’s ego. Love liberates.
Living well is an art that can be developed.
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.
It’s wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline’s name is mentioned, people’s voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I’m married to someone who is very jealous and you’re married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.
Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.
I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!
Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.
Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.