A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

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.

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.