How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

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 to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

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

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

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. It's the same for a writer ...

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.

There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.