You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Let me give you one piece of advice. Do not get between a woman and her cause.

Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.

Don't let misery bring you down.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.