The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

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

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

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.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

All of us are products of our childhood.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.