What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Ignorance is a fools castle.

Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

When you have an unconditional love of Life, then you love Life just the way it is showing up, right here, right now. This is only possible when you are "seeing the perfection."

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.