If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.

Here at the sea---especially at the sea---I could hear my sister’s voice in the waves: “Kira-kira! Kira-kira!

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

Not all white people are bad.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

Is everything right because the law allows it?