Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.

Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day!

I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.

Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

There's no such thing as a coincidence in a prayer chapel.

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land on you.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.