If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world.""And that, my lord?""Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

Show physical affection. Nothing says "I love you" like bearing the entirety of your spouse's weight.

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.