Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I am not young enough to know everything.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

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

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

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

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.