One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

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.

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.

God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.

How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

I listen to Glee songs a lot. I like their rendition of "Bust the Window Out Your Car."

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry.

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.