I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.

Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be.

I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.

With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese.

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

If you want a new look, get a new hair style.

Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.

Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

Value-based leaders believe in democratic workplaces in which employees participate in decisions.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.