Never underestimate yourself

In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.

Don't worry about it

People just want good stories.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.