Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.