When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

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.

Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell

Trust the Lord to help you fully commit yourself to His service

No doubt, there are times when I'm like "We have all gotten really used to saying whatever the f - k we want to say," and it's something that I really take seriously, whatever that may be.

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The world cares little for principles. They care for persons.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.