One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

It takes a long time to grow young.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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.