Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
I wanted kids to have context for seeing the horrible footage of 911. I wanted them to feel the patriotism that united us, the sense of inclusivity, of not discriminating against religions. I want that feeling back, and I want to remind kids - and all of us - that we have a tremendous power when we remember our history and our founding principles.
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.