The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

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.

It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing everyone dies one moment, one way or other way.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird.

I was always making my friends laugh but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.