Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

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.

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.

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

To enjoy the beauty of life and the joy of your soul, serve, love, and give the best you can.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

One needs to be Supernatural or Insane to defy Logic.

The long game was ended, the Snitch has been caught, it was time to leave the air....

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.