The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

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.

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

I live within the world of books.

Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Man plans. God laughs.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

I want to carry Manuel Neuer to my home.

Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.