No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
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.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
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.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
There's place and means for every man alive.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
