I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

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.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

I am not young enough to know everything.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

My art and profession is to live.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Courage is a kind of salvation.