Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your minds eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

No garden is without its weeds.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

The most important advances in civilization are the ones that are not noticed.