As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

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

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

Life should be great rather than long.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

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.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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.