The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.