In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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.

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

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

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

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