No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

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.

Unconditionally love people for what they are not what they should be.

To fill your heart with love, just love an innocent animal.

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

You can't do wrong right, but you can do right wrong.

I had fallen in love with a perfect lie.

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.