A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

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.

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Americans, unknowingly, live part of every day in the house that Satch built.

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

Civilization depends on morality.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.