Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.

All six of us are geniuses. And the world, as you know, is empty.

If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.

Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

You can't beat me and my prayers!

Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

You heard me. You ain't blind.

It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?