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.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
Life should be great rather than long.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
