After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.

No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Sono dovuta annegare migliaia di volte prima di risalire in superficie.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.