“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.”

“when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.”

“my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.”

“It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.”

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

“If ever thou shalt love,In the sweet pangs of it remember me;For such as I am all true lovers are,Unstaid and skittish in all motions elseSave in the constant image of the creatureThat is beloved.”

“Love sees with the heart and not with mind.”

“I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.”