“There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.”

“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.”

“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”

“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.”

“We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather...”

“My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privi...”

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working ...”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, andin spite of True Romance magazineswe shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do no...”

“I never really understood the word loneliness. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”

“A true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.”

“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”

“He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.”