It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Acknowledging the problem is healthy, fearing it is not.

I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.

I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once.

I would advocate that you show me your smiling face, and how happy you can make your life.

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.