That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Where there is love there is life.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.