youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

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.

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

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

I'm God. I will give you love and never hate you. I'll give you all the comforts you've ever imagined. Because I'm the God.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.