Do not be afraid to be afraid.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

True religion is that which does not let you stumble.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene