You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Pain don't hurt.

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

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.