The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

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.

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.