Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

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.

In the light of love, I find the glory of God’s grace.

Eternal purpose can be viewed only through the light of God

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

The poetry of speech.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America!

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.