My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

I don't give concerts, I put on a show.

Every experience is necessary wisdom.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.