It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

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.

You cannot disregard people and hope to see God

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

When you save a girl, you save generations

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.