We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

There is never enough time for fun.

There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.

Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

GOD Can Use ANYTHING To Do ANYTHING.

[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.