In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.

Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?” she asked looking at him with a coy smile. “Did we come for bait?

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

What you want, wants you.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

You adapt, evolve, compete or die.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'