That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

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.

Healing from childhood abuse is not going mad, it is going sane.

Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.