My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important that I matter!

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.