One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
To find the universal elements enough;
In the hope of reaching the moon
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
The point is to see [today] for what it is because it will be gone before you know it. If you waste it, it is your life that you're wasting. If you look the other way, it may be the moment you've been waiting for always that you're missing.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The idea is to fit the Parkway into the mountains as if nature has put it there.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. 
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
You have to cherish the world at the same time you struggle to endure it.
