The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

We think too much and feel too little.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

History is the devil's scripture.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.