The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

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.

A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.

Life is beautiful if you take the best option.

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

You’re dangerous,” he says. “Why?” “Because you make me believe in the impossible

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.