It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

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.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color