I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

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.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds.

Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?

My mother loved people and she loved conversation, and she loved to engage with people. She was a really fantastic person. You would've really liked her.

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.