Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
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.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
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.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
In the end, everything is a gag.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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.