The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

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.

Acceptance is the first step in the process of change. Why? Because it gives us something solid to stand on as we reach for more.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Congratulations to Chelsea Clinton. Over the weekend, she gave birth to a baby girl. The baby girl will not confirm or deny whether she's running in 2056.

I got bath water you could soak in, things I could do with lotion.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.