Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

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.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

I will finish what I have began.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

There's no way that you're real, ” she murmured to his crotch.

Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.