Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Nature is not human-hearted.

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

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

It takes a long time to grow young.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

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.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.