The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

There's place and means for every man alive.

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Let silence take you to the core of life.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

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

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist 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.