Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

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.

There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.

Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.