Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

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.

The best fiction is true.

But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.

As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.