True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

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 become the master of what you master.

Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.