If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

There's no way anyone in the world is having more fun than I am. I truly believe that.

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.