I love the sea.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

I am two with nature.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.