In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

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.

Your calling is in what you can do without noticing time

We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Do the things you used to do, and you'll feel the feelings you used to feel.

I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.