I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.

Life is mostly pain and struggle

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.