Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

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.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.

All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.

The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

People hate it when you're better than them. They ain't hating, start worrying then.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.