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.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Life should be great rather than long.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

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

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Time is the best killer.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.