To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.