Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

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.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.

I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.

If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.