Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.

Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause.

It's hard to balance work and family.

If the deal is right, the money gushes towards it.

The most you get is what you ask for.

The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

...it was more like bleeding than crying.

The Book of Mormon changes lives.