Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

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 you only show me a part of you, I'll only love that part.

Ignorance never settles a question.

One boy's a boy two boys are half a boy three boys are no boy at all.

No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.