Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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