We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

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

Live to the point of tears.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.