Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

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.

Every heart must have its privatebestseller book.

Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Purple's my favorite color.

I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. John Wayne

Life too short to spend alone.

We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.