“A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.”

“No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.”

“We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.”

“No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.”

“We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.”

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”

“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”

“We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.”

“Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.”

“The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.”