Dolly Parton

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.