Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

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.

The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.

No serum can vhange who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness--it al depends on who's telling the story.

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

We try to write the best songs ever, and they come out kind of funny.

You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.