Going to the mountains is going home.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

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.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

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

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.