Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

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

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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 generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.