A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

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.

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

Life is defined by the lives you touch, and not by the mistakes you've made.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

Rose? Is that you?" I peered behind him. Lissa. "What are you doing here?" "What are you doing here?" She asked "Ladies, ladies" he said teasingly. "No need to fight over me." I glared. "We're not.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.