When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

Seek the Lord while you must.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

I don't typically do what you're supposed to do. I focus on what I should do.

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.

I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.