Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.