The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

The key to longevity: keep breathing.

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

Keep breathing.

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.

None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am independent. I make up my own mind.