One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Live to the point of tears.

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.