Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

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 most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

You're not what you eat; you're what you believe about what you eat.