What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

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.

We put our hope and trust in the living God.

For all those who believed me, and for all those who didn't. It can't be easy hearingthings that you shouldn't.

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it.