Flies are the price we pay for summer.

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.

Most of us could stop doing something that's hindering our passion for Jesus and effectiveness in following him.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

I do not teach. I relate.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.