Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.