Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than that, " my father said. "He was beautiful.

You can love completely without complete understanding.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.