I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that..

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you..

If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow,….

The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scor….

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude..

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less ….

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate..

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her..

People were laughing at me anyway, so I thought I might as well start charging them..

I feel very lucky for that gift that I was given but it´s been quite tough to deal with sometimes too. When you are blessed with something like this ….

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like ….

I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not puttin….

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion..

I've never stopped learning..

Either is both, and Both is neither..

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong..

The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombie….

[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking ch….

I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes..

There's something about the people who knew you when you were young- before you had decided who you wanted to be. Before you knew what face you wante….