Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

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.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Every day, do one thing to help someone without expecting anything in return.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Our Imperfections Are What Make Us Perfect.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.