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.

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

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

We all owe death a life.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed