This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

There's place and means for every man alive.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

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

All of us are products of our childhood.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.