An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

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.

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.