Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

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.

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

It wasn't that I stopped caring about life, but that I've stopped being able to care.

As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.