All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

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.

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

Each of us has a private Austen.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.