When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

I came up from a difficult background.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.