To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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

Live to the point of tears.

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

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

All of us are products of our childhood.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.