All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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 place and means for every man alive.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

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

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.