Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!

When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.