Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.

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.

Live each day as if life can end any time.

And darkness will rule.

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

The essential doesn't change.

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.