A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

Your strengths are the raw materials that God needs to make your dreams happen.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." —Bella Swan