Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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.

So reality your mother builds you a room in which to run and test, your father give you the stuff on which to handle. Tests and everything needed and you just upgrade yourself!

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.