If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born. "
Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics. . . If you do not have 5,000 rounds of. 223, 5,000 rounds of. 22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
The beginning is always today.
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is shown in language. We need language.
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.
Stop selling. Start helping.
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
There is beauty in feeding others when you are spiritually or physically hungry yourself.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
I chase after inspiring stories.