While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

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.

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

Women are suspicious. Men are devious. Infinite loop.

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

The gods help them who help themselves.

A cruise missile is more important than Head Start.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?