Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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

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

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

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

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

The way to know life is to love many things.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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

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

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

History is the devil's scripture.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.