A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

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.

He studied her lips like they were a riddle he desperately needed to solve.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

Don't underestimate me.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

God is not dead-He is merely unemployed.