If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

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.

Worries flee before a spirit of gratitude.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.