A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.