Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

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.

Your gift or calling enables you to ask the question of what to do

Once a cat loves you, it loves you till the end.

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.