You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

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

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.

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.

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.