Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

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.

Money is permission to live.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't know is if I should explain to them what I'm doing while I'm photographing them.