Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

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.

You are the ONLY you there is, you have a purpose, you are not just a biomass

No one can sad listening to Frankie Valli.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations if they are accepted.

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

I stopped singing and they gave me an award.