The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Humility is practical application of knowledge.