All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

What you become is what counts.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

Indian weddings, visually, they're so stunning.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

Beach Rules Soak up the sun. Ride the waves. Breathe the salty air. Feel the breeze. Build sandcastles. Rest relax reflect. Collect seashells. Bare feet required.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

Another day, another dollar

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

You gave me wings to fly, then took away my sky.

If you're working on 'Doctor Who,' you've got to be the Doctor. So yeah, I think they need a woman Doctor, and that's who I'd like to be.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

My commitment is my commitment.

I'm not meek at all.

I don't fear anything now.