It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

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.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

We should never let another person get under our skin to the point that we feel hate for them

I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.