That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the wilderness. I'd hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still.So fall with me. Fall down with me.And stay.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

I didn't want to see you, but you invaded my world. Every dark corner you found a way in bringing light to the lifeless and lost." Eva

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.

No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.