To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

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.

There is safety in numbness– there is solace in sleep.

If you find yourself wondering if you can go on, remember how much you’ve accomplished. Then raise your head high and be proud. YOU GOT THIS!

It's better to be friends with someone that is willing to be your friend than someone that doesn't.

I came to understand that happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

They say plan it. I say do it.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.