Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

[Twitter] is not totally where I go anymore to sell myself as a concept, as a comedian, because it moves too fast.

You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.