A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

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.

And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.

Kisses are a shared solitude.

Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we are left to suffer!

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.