Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

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.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

To have a job where you can make things better for people? That's a blessing. Why would I do anything else?

The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.