For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

All of us from The Waltons still love each other. I think were closer than some real families.

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

Memories are the only thing tie us to the past

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

The best thing in life aren't things.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?

In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.