Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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.
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.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
Diamonds are a girls best friend.
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.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.