Everything is hard before it is easy

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.

Kids without dads are desperate and jealous. Those with dads can be uppity and sharp.

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.