To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

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.