It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

When tourism was connected to beautification, with wildflower trails, wildflower festivals, great gardens, we pretty much took the word beauty out of the sole province of the "ladies at a tea party" to the province of the business community.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.

Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Don't try to rush progress. Remember - a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.