Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Pain don't hurt.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

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.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.