Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

A false vision was better than none.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

I know that sacrifices have to be made to play with good teams.

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

Live music is better.

Freedom means the right to be stupid.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.