The place to observe nature is where you are.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more ’gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.
The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.