It is not the length of life, but the depth.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

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.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

We think too much and feel too little.

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

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

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

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

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

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.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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