You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Is That All There Is?

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.

There must not be any single person in the world whom you should allow to rent a portion of your heart. Don't hold grudge. Forgive and move on...

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Treat people how you want to be treated.

I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.