I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

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.

Rainbows earn their brightest colors in the storm.

some poems frothand foam and rise...out of my morning cup ofmist-sweetened coffee.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

The only difference between us and the animals is our ability to accessorize!

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

News photography teaches you to think fast.