Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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 INTENTION OF LIFE IS NOT TO REMAIN, BUT TO EVOLVE TO SOMETHING BETTER THAN IT WAS BEFORE AT EVERY STAGE, AND FINALLY, TO SOMETHING WONDERFUL.

Dreams are the sources of action the meeting and the end a resting place among the flight of things.

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something