If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities and for no more.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.

What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing.