Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

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.

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now...

We had the longest kisses under the Acacia tree.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Hillary Clinton is going to make sure that Americans are safe at home and abroad.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?

Poverty consist in feeling poor.