Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

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.

Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.

We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours. -Phury's thoughts

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.

There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.