What matters in art is not thinking but making.

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.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Move by faith and courage

Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.