people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

Every day comes with a host of opportunities but also distractions. You need to develop good judgement in the decisions and choices you make.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.

If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.