You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

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 the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world’. You’re one of the lucky ones. You’re the world to far more people than you think.

It is not what we choose that is important

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.