To know where a thing is we must have found it.

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.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

He would have given anything for a tension-breaker-maybe, if he prayed hard enough, the school would catch on fire or something.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

If you pretend you're completely mad, people believe it. The only thing I wanted when making the film was to have fun.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.