Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

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.

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

Going to set was always a great release.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.