Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Where there is love there is life.

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.

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

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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