I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Be careful in the company of monsters that you don't become one.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.