I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

The key to longevity: keep breathing.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.

Keep breathing.

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Love can be more destructive than hate.

I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

There is no greater bore than perfection.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.