What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

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.

Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress.

The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.

It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous.