When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

Whatever happens, never happens by itself.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.