One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life.

Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?