Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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

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

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

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

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.