I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

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.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.