I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

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.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

He gazed into eyes the color of a summer morning sky and sighed. It felt as if his soul had just come home.

The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as they exist, which are not archives, which are not sold or prepared even.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.