I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor. . . . '
Superman can fly high way up in the sky 'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine. . . It's all in the mind.
My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.
One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need
The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.
Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.