It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

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.

Life is the greatest teacher because it educates even those who really hate to learn.

May you find the beauty in every moment.

Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.

Survival is triumph enough.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.