I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.