Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

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.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Love must face reality, if it is to surviveJumping in the Puddles of Life

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.