Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
