People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

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

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Time is the best killer.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

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

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.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.