We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

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.

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, Reason none, If what parts, can so remain.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.

Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.

The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

My doctor told me my jogging could add years to my life.

Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.