If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

Myth is someone else's religion.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

It is easy to find peace if you are kind, loving, and forgiving.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.