A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

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.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.

I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

The weak fear happiness itself.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.