Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

Whoever said kindness should be earned is wrong. A kick in the shins is earned - kindness should be a given.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.

I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.

Love is all there's time for.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.