The less routine the more life.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'

The Destroyer has arrived and you are he.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

The eyes are hungry but often satiated before they see.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.