Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

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.

A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.

Instead of living together (in a joint family) with a difference of opinions, it is better to live separately and live with unity.

I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

I'm so thankful that I have gotten the opportunity to fulfill my life purpose of staying inside on tumblr all day.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.