Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

We all owe death a life.

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.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

There's place and means for every man alive.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.