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

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.

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.

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.

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Everyone thinks, "Oh, it'd be easy to just go scout a game." It's not. Because you end up watching the game and not actually focusing [on scouting].

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.