We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

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.

Be careful your footsteps do not stumble by the stumbling stone.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I'm not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.

I'm the third of five children.