"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."

“Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.”

“Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.”

“I love comedies and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. ‘The Other Guys’ was not lazy.”

“The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.”

“Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

“I go to sleep happy. I wake up excited because I give the truth.”

“At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

“There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.”