It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

Home is pretty utopian.

I have had my share of heartbreaks...Though I'm single and my career has taken prescedence, I'm ready to mingle now.