Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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.
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.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Pain don't hurt.
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.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.