No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

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.

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for schools but not for Fajr.

If there's no input, there's no output!

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.