Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

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.

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

I don't look back. I'm like a shark - I only look forward.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.