My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

It is good people who make good places

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

Real power comes by empowering others.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.