Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

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.

No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see within.

Man created languages, but God created laughter. Humanity can always laugh together even if it can't always speak together.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

I've gotten to portray things in [Christopher Guest's] movies that I wouldn't have in others.

Every single frame, every single shot in the movie, has a digital effect.