Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I love life because what more is there?

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.