Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.