Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world.""And that, my lord?""Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Trump's - has great negatives, enormous negatives, a lot of people say they simply won't vote for him. So if he's gotten media, maybe it hasn't done him so much good.

The middle class in America has been devastated.

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.

You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.

Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.