Create, artist, do not talk.

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 sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

A number of the pundits said well, if a couple of the other candidates drop out, if you add their scores together they don't understand that as they drop out, we'll get the votes.

Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else.

I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi.