No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

We are always the same age inside.”

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.