All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Your true world is your state of consciousness and awareness where your minds dwells and dances.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.