"[On growing up in a large family..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I don't kiss nobody's butt.”

“My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.”

“The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!”

“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”

“When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.”

“I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.”

“I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.”

“Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

“Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.”