Collectors are happy people.

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.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.