Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

God Almighty is my sacred shelter.

Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

I hope that this [hacking] does not continue to be viewed purely through a partisan lens.I think there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are concerned about this.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.