We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Lost time is never found again.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

God does not play dice.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

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

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.