If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell."

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?