Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

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.

she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport

There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong.

choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%.

I assure you, princess, if you saw the real me, you’d run for cover. (Zarek) Only if I knew you’d be waiting under that cover for me. (Astrid)

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.