Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

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.

Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time

Only one word describes a woman widowed for the second time on her wedding night – cursed.

While you are too busy minding other people's business, who is busy minding yours?

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.