Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Certain signs precede certain events.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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.

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

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

We think too much and feel too little.

Live your life and forget your age.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.