Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

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.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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

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

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.