Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

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.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.

It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of work!

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

Let's not underestimate the seriousness of the challenge. We have a deeply divided party. We have a deeply divided country.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.