Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

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 best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the things that you need to do.

A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.

Nothing good can come from a crack of dawn meeting on a Monday morning.

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.