A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

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.

The privileged, we’ll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.

No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people!

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.