I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

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.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.