Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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

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

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.