Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.