"Some things are strange to me, and..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.”

“You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.”

“I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.”

“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”

“Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.”

“I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.”

“Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

“The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.”

“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”