My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.

Only by knowing yourself can you live honestly and find your own path.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.

I've learned that love is not possessive and I've learned that love won't wait. Now I've learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late.

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.