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.

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

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

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.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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