Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

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.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars

I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.

I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter.

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf