Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.