A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

You can love me or you can hate me but you can't define me.

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.