There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.

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.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

The ability to kill someone doesn't make you a leader, and it doesn't make someone great. There's nothing great about dying or taking a life.

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

Once you learn how to think you can teach yourself anything.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.