There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

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.

We are much more than pretty... we are wonderfully made. We are much more than likable... we are deeply loved. We are much more than ok... we are the daughters of the King.

Even though she was powerful enough to kill, she could also grow flowers.

I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.