I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

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.

Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.

You're sure?' I asked. 'I mean, the Lord of the Sword is great. But you could also be, I don't know, the Slammer of the Hammer'.

Persistently worrying yourself over what life throws at you never makes it better but deters you from your set goals in life.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.