Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things...

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...

I have loved the feel of the grass under my feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to...

Leap and the net will appear

You can fail many times, but you’re not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome...

Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic...

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

The secret of happiness is something to do

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be...

I am in love with this world… I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed...