At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Our life mandate on earth is carrying out our purpose

My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.

What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel...is the way we spend our lives.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.