Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

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.

It is uncertainty which fills life with beauty, excitement, and joy.

Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.

All tradition is merely the past.

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

Am I really a good mathematician?

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?