If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.

Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.

My life is a struggle.