The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.
Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth. '
[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do. . . People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.
Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?
Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.
Despite what your girlfriend may have told you, size is important, bigger is better.
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.