The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

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.

Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance.

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

Leaders who won't own failures become failures.