What is not fully understood is not possessed.

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.

Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.

I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

I think you're cute when the power goes to your head.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.