I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

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 you are not trying to participate or win then you are trying to fail.

Spend every moment in "Hope" and "Love" for God for he has risen and brought us courage.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin.

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.