“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

Gods plan hurts sometimes.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.

The only person that needs to believe in you, is you.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.