Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.

Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

You can learn from your health challenge what is most important and become a better human being.

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.