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- Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
- If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
- Wall Street Proverb
- And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
- Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
- Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
- Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal
- In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
- Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - )
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