The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

To live in the hearts of others is not to die

Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!

The clearing is often only happening for us, and those who love us most cannot see or believe in our nascent visions.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.