The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

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.

You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

Beard is like Niqab, that covers cheeks

Invest in yourself. your career is the engine of your wealth.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.