Live simply so others may simply live.

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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

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

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

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.

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

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

I am not young enough to know everything.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

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

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.