Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

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.

An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.

...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

I play music but only for myself. For my ears only.

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous.

It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.