Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.
Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.