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 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.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.

I think having wild, huge hair, is me being my own version of a lioness.

More will mean worse.

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.