Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

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.

Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.

You will never know how courageous you are until you are willing to leave your comfort zone to leap into the unknown.

She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.