Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

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.

You should never judge a person solely by the evidence of your eyes.

We need to learn to dance more softly.

The past is uselessto me now:an old suitcasewith mould in the lining, heavy even when empty.

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.