Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

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 sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.

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