"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins toblame somebody else and stops trying."

"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."

"Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these."

"Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times"

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice"

"Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it."

"It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental."

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."

"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind."

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another."

"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

"Leap, and the net will appear."

"If you think you can do it, you can."

"It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."

"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."

"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."

"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."

"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."

"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."

"The secret of happiness is something to do."