When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

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.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

All of us are products of our childhood.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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.

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