What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

Morality without kindness and compassion is very dangerous.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.