The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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 natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

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