Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.