The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.

I have a gigantic head, sometimes it throws me off balance.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.