Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

The only friend you can ever have that understands you better than anyone else is you”.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.

The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.