It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

If money is a curse, may God smite me with it, and may I never recover!

There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.

WE MUST ALL EAT OR ELSE WE WILL PUT SAND IN YOUR FOOD.

Daily prayer, daily grace.

Hope – that silly, stupid creature that lived within me, no matter how often I tried to beat it to death – lifted its nose and sniffed at the air.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.