It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

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.

It comes in pints?

Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.

Alcohol is none other than a call from the hall (of alcoholics). That hall is none other than the hell.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles

All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.