Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

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.

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

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

I am not young enough to know everything.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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.