If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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.

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

I actually eat a lot.

If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something

All things come to those who wait.