The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.