“Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.”

“Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.”

“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”

“Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life....”

“Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.”

“Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment.”