Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

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.

take words and make them useful, ' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

You held me down and rammed me so hard I deep-throated you from the other end.

Through Christ we have victory.

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

Two are better than one if two act as one.