A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.

There are three things: to walk, to see, and to see what you see.

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.

My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.

... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.

When asked how long I've worked here I replied "since the day they threatened to fire me."

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

The people of this country who want their laws enforced and respected, and respected by all, and who want their border secured, are not racists.

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.