"I think that I know the value..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.”

“When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.”

“One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.”

“When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...”

“Someone once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn't everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.”

“What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.”

“We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.”

“honesty dies in selling itself.”