Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

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.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Desmond, don't poke the baby!'... 'I'll get you next time-' Don't threaten the baby either!'.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

‎The past is always an invented land.

What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.