It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.