Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

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.

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.

My Peace I leave with you

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

Man shall not live by bread alone.

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.