Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

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.

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

I could have a lot of fun with Michael Jackson, I'm sure.

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.