In the end, everything is a gag.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

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.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.