The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

I sing around the house, in the shower

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.