We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Wildflowers don't care where they grow.

You are your artYour are your songYou are your craft.You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.