Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
