The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

I believe in miracles.... I have to.

I've found that one of the most important things in life is to learn how to forgive yourself.

When everything gets too much, give some away

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

Greece is a good place for rebirths.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things