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.

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 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.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

Dream is the realm most people live their life.

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

The more I drink the better I write and the more I write the better I drink.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.

Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?

I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.

When you've got 5 minutes to fill, Twitter is a great way to fill 35 minutes.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.