"Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts."

"What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

"The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell."

"Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives."

"We are the hero of our own story."

"If you know how rich you are then you are not rich. But us, we do not know the vastness of our wealth. That's how rich we are."

"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh."

"My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges."

"The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions."

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."