If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.