Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

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.

Nothing threatens a corrupt system like a free mind.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.