I’ve never given myself a lot of credit because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I got divorced and took control of my life.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
I dont do drugs. I am drugs.
I’m attracted to myths.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.