There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

Get to the next level by learning the art of investing in people.

I hate traveling with amateurs.

Why play small? Let your greatness be evident to all.

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

There is no peace without forgiveness.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.