When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.