"I always loved books. I don't remember..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.”

“Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.”

“It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.”

“In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.”

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.”

“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”

“Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.”

“Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.”

“New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.”