Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

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 useless to lecture a human.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.