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.

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

The first time he wrapped his arms around her and bent his head to caress her lips with his, she was caught by surprise and felt a breathless tingle shoot through her. Was this it, she wondered?

Slow motion gets you there faster.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to.