A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

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 myself always to keep alive I'll enjoy the beauty of nature at close quarters.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work.

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.