If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

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.

Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Take it as a token. Because tomorrow when I go, I want you to believe friends are possible.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.