We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

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.

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Boxing is your father's sport.

I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.

What happens in Cabo stays in Cabo

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.