Billie Holiday

When you sing, always tell the truth.

If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing.

Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.

You can’t copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, you’re working without any real feeling.

There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

All heiresses are beautiful.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.