We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

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.

If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.