The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

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

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

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.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.