I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

Blues was made for the recessed.

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.

All things are delicately interconnected.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

I am not gone but merely walk within you.

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can't ever be replaced.