Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

When suffering comes, learn to trust each day into God’s hands . . . let your lips be filled with prayer and praise.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property.

My mistakes are no worse than yours.

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. "Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.