Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

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.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

When people throw shade, shine brighter!

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.