Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man..

[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 ch….

The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don'….

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye..

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, 'On….

Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool. ... ….

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life..

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?.

In our dreams we are always young..