The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

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.

I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Patti, I don’t know anything.

Even a smile is a good deed.

There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.

We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.

I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself.

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

There are two types of people: you have people that like psychological horror and you have those that like everything in their face.