Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Your days are only important if you decide to make them important.

It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.