"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water and time."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."