Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

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.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

Lot, who said to his wife as she was being turned into a pillar of salt, Stop shaking! Never got a dinner!

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.