One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Smiles are the language of love.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

It’s not possible to stop love.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

I have wondered about time all my life.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.