Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

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.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

You act like the sorcerers are invading the continent for the sole joy of hunting me down and lobbing me off of tall objects.

I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Being a bad writer a thousand times first.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

If you think the memories of the past too much, you will miss creating the new ones!