Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

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.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

It takes a long time to grow young.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.