When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

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.

He focused on the world before him

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.