To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.