Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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.

Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.

Life is pitifully mediocre without passion. Never let anyone take your passion away from you.

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

We walk by faith, not by sight.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.