A greedy man who piles up wealth
is like an owl who loves her chicks
the chicks grow up and eat their mother.
Wealth eventually swallows its owner.
Spread it around and blessings grow.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

a lot of farmers have gone to a lot of trouble merely to be self-employed to live at least a part of their lives without a boss.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.

A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A picture is a poem without words.

A pretty face may last a year or two; but pretty soon they’ll see what you can do.

a racrhorse used to catch a rat
will never match a crippled cat.

A robin redbreast in a cage puts all Heaven in a rage.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.