“The tragedy of life is that people do not change.”

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.

What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.

The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.

You can be the change. And it all starts with voting.

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.