“Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?”

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

Life with another person is always difficult.

What a beautiful island we live on! The sky has a permanent haze.

In your head, a sunset can go on for days.

Impossibilities will start to happen for all of us, like magic.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

The summer clouds: reminded me of the summers of 1940s when the world was naive.

The wind is bringing the cloud to swim.

I’m not going to doubt my life.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

The morning beam is telling me that it’s action time!

Every drop in the ocean counts.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

When we dream together, we create a new reality.

I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.

I don’t start a film with the heroine but with the cinema subject. If there is a woman in the story, she has to be of a particular type. It’s not as if I start with Madhuri Dixit and then think what kind of film.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.