Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it.

I love you, Esmeralda, ” he said.“I love you, too, ” she whispered back, and he couldn’t help smiling. At least he would die with those words in his ears.

If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Turn the damn tap off when you brush your teeth - Aargh!

Without error, there is no brilliancy.

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.