If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

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.

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, ' she said with a sigh.

Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

I do make a concscious effort to be genuine among other comedians. If I write something or try something that doesn't feel like me, I stop doing it.

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.

Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.