Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.