I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

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.

Truth is only true if it is true for all.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.