A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

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.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

I’m not a serpent, Father. I’m a crow.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few foods that has its own goddess.

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.