Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

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.

To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe

Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.