Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

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.

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go to enrich it.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

The whole thing about magazines is that, magazines are going to become deeper and more tutorial, and the nature of the magazine is going to change.

It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.