That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

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 wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward.

Let us decorate the world with the pearls of a smile, diamonds of hope, and the rubies of love.

The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.

He bears wounds only seen with the heart and the scars that have formed over the years still pain him.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.