There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.