Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

Death by starvation is slow.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

With kindness you always win.

Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

I think the comments about me being a shill for leadership are beyond the pale.

About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

We have to sell the dream before we can sell the clothes

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?