Everything is hard before it is easy.

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.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

People don't get to choose who they fall in love with. The only get to choose who they stay in love with.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.