One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

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.

Without knowing failure how can we know success?

It's not revealing, it's informative.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.