All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Anger is action without thoughts.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

The only difference between the women I've dated and Charles Manson is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut case when you first meet him.

To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.