The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

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.

They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners…I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth.

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.