We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

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.

In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.

I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I have never seen a market unfold in other than an Elliott Wave pattern.

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.