Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

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

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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.

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.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

It takes a long time to grow young.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Any place I hang my head is home.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

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.