Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

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.

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Speeches are like steer horns - a point here a point there and a lot of bull in between.

I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.