What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The earth laughs in flowers.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

All mankind love a lover.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The first wealth is health.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Money often costs too much.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Every wall is a door.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.