[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.