We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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.

My boy, many people know many things. But the things we think we know of others can only become what is known if the others choose to do the doing of making what we think we know known.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache.

When you have momentum going, play the momentum

We'd be better off if we only had the words 'I love you.'

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.