He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

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.

Oh my love! Your eyes are the mirror of my heart.

No one, none of us have rights. There is no destiny. We have responsibilities to ourselves and each other. We have responsibilities and the choice whether or not we live up to those responsibilities.

It's you, ” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.