The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

so quiet now my dearest knightyour armor shines white stillfor my lips shall not say the wordsthat make you flee with fear"White Knight

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.

In yoga you reach your arms to the heavens and the universe smiles back at you.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

For me, things were either very sullied or very pure, very controlled or very under-controlled.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.