Superstition is the poetry of life.

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.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

Real wealth is feeling sorry for the poor

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.