"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

"To know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow."

"It is a essential truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."