The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

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.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: passive systems collect the sunlight that hits your home, and active systems collect the sunlight that hits your neighbors' homes, too.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.