The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

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.

I wasn't exactly good with children. I wasn't bad with them, as such. I just wasn't around them much and, because of that, when I was, they freaked me out because I didn't know what to do with them.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

World history is a court of judgment.

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

When you come upon a difficult task ... start.

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'