Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!

I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

Long live the pioneersRebels and mutineersGo forth and have no fearCome close the end is near

Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration

Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.