If you would create something, you must be something.

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.

Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does not turn out right.

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here