Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul).

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.

I gave him my hard stare. “You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?” A wicked spark lit his eyes. “Many, many times.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

If I was a mechanic and someone called me and said their car would not start, I would say, "Hey - maybe a killer is after you!"

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.