God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.