Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

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 cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

If people don't believe the source, then we aren't going to change their minds. We just won't.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.