A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

But as the world turns I learned life is hell, Livin' in the world no different from a cell...

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?

Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?