If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

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.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

In the end, everything is a gag.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

We all owe death a life.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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.

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

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.