Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

How could I live without powder?

You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Forget the economy. Just rewire your mentality. Then you'll create your own economy.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker