Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.

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

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

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

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

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.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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

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.

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.

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

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

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

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