“I always appreciate my name in lights.”

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

I do believe with all of my heart that life will be good again.

Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.

Since I was a little girl there’s probably only been a handful of days I haven’t had a guitar in my hand at some point, even if only for just a minute.

Everybody needs a pair of six-inch heeled boots in their winter wardrobe.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Hold your head high and look today straight in the eye.

There’s no such thing as too much glitter.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb – and I’m not blonde either.

So long as you got your smile then you’ve got everything you need!

If you don’t take the reins, it’s going to stay the same. Nothin’s gonna change if you don’t change it.

f you ain’t laughin’, you ain’t livin’.

I get by with a little help from my friends!

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn to a poem like Casualty in Field Work.

In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, ‘I’m bored’