Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

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 broke your heart.Now barefoot I treadon shards.

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

Nobody remembers who came in second.

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.

I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.