Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

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

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

History is the devil's scripture.

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

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Life is made up of marble and mud.