To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

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.

I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.