I'm the original take-orders girl.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Money is the most powerful and popular god because everybody is praying for money.

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.