You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

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.

Don’t trivialize the fact that your life is diminishing.

All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare

[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.