If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.