There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

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.

Every angel is terrifying.

It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.

Race ain't nothing but a number.

People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.