Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.