My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

It is your friends who make your world.

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.