At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

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.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.

If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz, ' 'Hair, ' 'Fame, ' 'Annie, ' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.

I’m smiling on the inside. I feel I have a responsibility to the fashion community.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.