There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.

Doesn't it always boil down to pain?

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.