When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.
All things seem possible in May.
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.
I often conduct interviews in my truck.
You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.