If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it