To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

You are more beautiful at first light then most girls are dressed and glamorous." Dana Christy

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

I've been a fan of Kenny Bob's for almost 20 years, and he's always made me laugh, and laugh hard! He is just, flat-out, a great entertainer!

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.

But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.