The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

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.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

There's a lot of great strikers in the business but no one should ever forget about Chuck Liddell.