"There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex."

"I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith."

"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?"

"But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument."

"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living."

"By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me."

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."

"I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree."

"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm."

"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth."

"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."