The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

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.

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it.

Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world

You need a new strategy for every new situation.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

Change the narrative, change the laws.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.

"Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up."