I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

Nature is not human-hearted.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Life must be lived as play.