"My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home,..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.”

“I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?”

“We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.”

“I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.”

“The dearest events are summer-rain.”

“Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.”

“He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.”

“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”

“We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.”