The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

Breathing dreams like air

Be yourself, free being.

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.