Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

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

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

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.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

What goes up must come down.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.