How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

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.

It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.