That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
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.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
My art and profession is to live.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
