“Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.”

“I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.”

“I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.”

“Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.”

“I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.”

“Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.”

“When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'”

“Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.”

“I never speak in silence.”

“Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.”

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”