Let silence take you to the core of life.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
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.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
