To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Certain signs precede certain events.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
We think too much and feel too little.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.