Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.