It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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

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.

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.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

What goes up must come down.

Life must be lived as play.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

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

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included