It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
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.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
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 keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
