There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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.

If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

When I look at her, my heart brightens up. She's that kind of girl.

when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

The hoverlanes were murder.