Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.

Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.

Judges are but men and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality give it whatever other name you please.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me!

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.