Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

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

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.