You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

Unbelief is a belief.

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.