Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

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.

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.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.

Grief doesn't have a face.

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.

I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.