There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.

I will see my father in every anger.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism

A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.