Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

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.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.