Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

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.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.