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

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 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 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.

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

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

You can't help everyone, but.... everyone can help someone.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.

Surrendering means non-desiring.

I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.

Tip O'Neill, even after Ronald Reagan became president, called him "an amiable dunce," which is what the Democrats always do.

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.