Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

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.

Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn't that they keep lying to you

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.

Yes, life is a woman!

Funny is when you're serious.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.