Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

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.

Ask not what your country can do for you

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

A white wall is the paper of a foole.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

The madder I get, the faster I go.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.