Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

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.

A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn, ' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.