Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

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.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

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

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

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