Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.