Nature & World Sayings

My brain is always working, even when I am asleep. It is a torment.

I am like a tree that bears fruit in its old age.

I have always sought the truth, and I have found it in nature.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

I don't like to be constrained.

I'm a force of nature. I'm a force to be reckoned with. I'm a force to be admired.

The first thing I ever earned, when I was 13 years of age, was one dollar and twenty cents a week, and I was the happiest boy on earth.

I don't have to be a movie star to be happy.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

It is not the light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

I tell you, there is no escape for us. We shall be taken up and carried to the end of the earth, and there we shall be given a hearing.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

I am not a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.