It is opposition that makes us productive.

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.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

America has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.

So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.