O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.