Laughter is much better than anger.

The future begins today.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

I destroy the image after I've made it, obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.

Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

My goal is really to continue to make music.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.