If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

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.

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

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.

Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feeling are very hard to express with words.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow

You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.

I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Just be yourself and wear deodorant.

When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.

The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.