So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

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.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

How much you can love others without expectations will define who you are.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.