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.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

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

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

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

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

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

What goes up must come down.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.