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.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.