A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.

When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!