Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

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.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

You won't go the hell for smoking, you'll just smell like you've been there.

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.