Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

History is the devil's scripture.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

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.'

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

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

Any place I hang my head is home.

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

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

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

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

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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