Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

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.

Honesty is the most talked about, the most desired but, at same time, one of the rarest qualities in present day world.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

Better alone than badly accompanied.

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.

Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.