The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

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.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.

Acquaint thyself with God.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.