The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

love the life you live.live the life you love.

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

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

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

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

Life must be lived as play.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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

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.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.