Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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.

No one said parenting was easy, but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.

I have really good instincts about friends.

The gun bounced so much in her shaky grasp that if she did fire, he’d likely be the one to catch the bullet.

The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen.

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.