Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

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.

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.