Take the back roads instead of the highways.

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it it aint so hot.

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You dont mind going through a little bush to get there

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

When I began to travel around the country, I would notice in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and even Texas that Latinos didn't want to speak Spanish. You would ask a question, only to be answered in English.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

A character is as much about what you do as what you say.

Even the bravest of creatures have some fears but it is not enough to stop them from moving in the path they are destined to walk upon.

I had done a bunch of stuff before I even went to Disney. I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.

As soon as a woman gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

I've always had mostly gay male friends.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.