People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

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.

I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.