Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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.

I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.

You never came out the way you came in.

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

All things to all people is nothing to everyone.

Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

My life is basically my work.