If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

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.

Great mission lies ahead of us.

A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

As [the New York Times] winds down its years and is becoming more and more problematic, it's gotten more and more vicious, more and more vile.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.