The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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

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.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Nature is not human-hearted.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.