It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

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.

Many lies lie between one truth.

God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody

Nothing's as changeable as a person's heart. Take hope and a warning from that.

They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs.