When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Trouble is part of your life

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence.

I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger