I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

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.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.

Life is a never ending journey of reaching out of our comfort zone. We can always reach new levels.

Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.

The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world