If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.

Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.

I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.