You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.

The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

The people that hurt you are the ones you love because you are the most open to them.

It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

Friends share all things.

I’m really alive when I’m on stage.

Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.