Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

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.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to reality.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

SnookiLove is really cute and it's inviting and welcoming. All my lines are like my personality: they are fun, they are outgoing, they are sexy, but not slutty.

The internet is something created largely by public funding.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.