The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

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.

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

Artists need to express.

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.

Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.