The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

Magic, " her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.

When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.

A feast is made for laughter and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Okay, well, if motion is the constant, how can I remain in motion?

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.