Time is the best killer.

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.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I restore myself when I'm alone.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

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.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.