He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

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.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Small things amuse small minds.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.

I go to my parents' over Christmas. I definitely do, but I don't see it as a Christmas because during Christmas there was also a Viking holiday. So I just to choose to see it as that!

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.