The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.

As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl.

The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.

Fiction is life by design.

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.