Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe