If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

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’m afraid i’ll lose you if i share all that’s real.i’m afraid i’ll lose myself if i don’t.

Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

Beauty lies within a person that is willing to do anything for their love, love is beauty within the heart.

Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.