All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

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.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

I had to find a way to speak without ever saying the 'you' plural.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?