Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

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

I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Voice is my instrument.

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

I'm constantly learning and evolving. I'm fascinated with life.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love.