Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

It gets tiring being a smartass.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

If you want the truth about being different, all you have to do is look in the mirror.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.