Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.

At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

In the Saudi system, women are considered inferior. No matter our age, we have male guardians. We must get permission from men to attend school, to work, to marry, to travel overseas - even to have basic medical procedures.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

The future will either be green or not at all.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

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.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.