He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

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.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.