Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

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.

Are you sure this is a good idea?’ I ask.‘No, ’ says Amber. ‘Let’s do it.

Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.