When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens.
I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
