The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

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.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

Woman is in love with the devil.

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

Our skin is what stands between us and the world.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

Can you see the hand of God in your own life?

I like being able to put out my own content instead of just going from audition to audition and just waiting and hoping.

Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.