Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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.

Dream’s elixir veered between light and clouds to save the blue..

I’ve been working on something that merges rap with classical…. I call it Baby’s Got Bach.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.