I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Live your life and forget your age.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
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
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.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
