I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

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.

Be comfortable with being uncomfortable with negative habits.

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

None but the dead have free speech.

There are much worse games to play.