It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular month of July was reading the script for March.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

I'm very sensitive to energy and people and life and animals and a lot of things.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

INTO THE WILD was a lot of fun, but challenging, 'cause you can get lost in the movement.

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn