Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive.

As long as there's life, there's hope.

But I’m not one to read a book backwards.

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

I would hate to be immortal forever.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.