Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

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.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

Hey," says Hayden, "I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate." "Get lost," Roland tells him. "Already am." And Hayden strolls away.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.