The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

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.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.

You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one

A human can alter their field, but can't change the world.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.