If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

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.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I had been too tired and too sick with melancholy to ride my bike, knowing full well that riding my bike was a cure.

I recalled thinking...His freakishly tidy side could be a problem. To say that neatness was not my strong suit would be a crime against, well, the truth.

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.