Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

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.

You smell like a fresh flower and surround me like spring air.

Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will.

If you are a queen and I am a queen then who will fill the bucket of water?

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day

how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.