Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

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.

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.

Small miracles happen every day, some people just don’t notice them.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes its fun, sometimes its annoying.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

People see what they want to see when they need to.