“We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.”

“I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.”

“Is forever longer than always?”

“I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.”

“It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.”

“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”

“I have thrust myself into this maze,Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.”

“Ambition's debt is paid.”