Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

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.

Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

The old saying that "success breeds success" has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.