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.

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

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.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Good readers make much out of little.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.