I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

Mornin', ladies. My goodness, don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

Hymns are companions for life travelers.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Without written goals, we fail to plan and to run with single-minded purpose.

The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!

Come over here and taste me, ” he says, his voice little but a seductive whisper.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.