Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

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’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

So Stephanie.. you wanna say let the bodies hit the floor... I would say... let the boobies hit the floor!

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.