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.

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

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Any place I hang my head is home.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

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.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

I am not young enough to know everything.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

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

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.