A joy shared is a joy doubled.

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.

do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.

[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.