I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

"A good book is an event in my life."

The dove is my emblem.... I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it.... I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill...

“Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension”

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies--and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.