Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

Of course it's good when you win the Champions League, the league, the golden boot. But when you win something for your country it's completely different.

Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

In the distance someone is singing.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.