The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Where there is love there is life.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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.