One lives but once in the world.

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.

The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.

It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

...You know something, don't you?" "I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific." "Just answer the question." "True/false or multiple choice?

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.