Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

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.

You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.

I have come to understand what being a public person means. I don't let things I can't do anything about bother me.

Braille is knowledge, and knowledge is power.

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people

I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.