Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

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 had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

It’s not what we do once—it’s what we do once a day…day in and day out…every day that brings lasting change into our lives.

It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.

Present trials strengthen you for future blessings.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they had paid to the founders.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.