When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

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.

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company