Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
We think too much and feel too little.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
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.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
