The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

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.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

People can progress only by working and producing more.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.