Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

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.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.