Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

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.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world, " I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.

When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is something seriously going wrong in the USA.

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.