“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.

When I die I have visions of fags singing ‘Over the Rainbow’ and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience. I want to give them two hours of just pow.

Audiences have kept me alive.

When you have lived the life I’ve lived, when you’ve loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad — well, that’s when you realize you’ll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you’d rather die first.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I’ve been in love with audiences all my life, and I’ve tried to please. I hope I did.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we’d like each other a little bit more.

Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you was the first thing that hit my head.

I think there’s something peculiar about me that I haven’t died. It doesn’t make sense but I refuse to die.

If I’m such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I’m such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it’s out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she’s sure it’s not out of order?

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I’ve either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living?

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I’m not joking.