We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

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.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.