For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

I am a thing of beauty.

(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.

I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.