Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.