Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

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.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

The race to win turns us all into losers.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.