“All churches are an echo of thisthe Cathedral of Nature.”

“To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them.”

“Darling, I would follow you through the blackest midnightjust not without my trousers!”

“I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.”

“In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silencewishing, waiting, hoping, praying.”

“One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.”

“Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.”

“You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.”

“Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.”

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging...”

“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someo...”

“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and se...”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

“Value yourself first and only then you can learn to value others.”

“Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.”