Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

My Life is My Message

Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was.

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.