The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

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.

A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.

That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk, Phony niggaz are outlined in chalk

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.

For he who touches the Body of Christ unworthily receives his damnation.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.