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.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

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.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

No garden is without its weeds.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

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

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

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

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

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

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