My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

We can prevail with prayer.

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me.

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.