[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

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.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

The President Barack Obama said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.