"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."

"The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense."

"Life is consciousness."

"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins."

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."

"Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home."

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"Oh for a book and a shady nook..."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."