The ones who count are those persons who- though they may be of little renown- respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. (From Paths in Utopia)

Whatever you do and however you do it and however famous you become, you still came out of some woman. You're still part of the human race. You're still as muc…

The real point of mountain climbing, as of most hard sports, is that it voluntarily tests the human spirit against the fiercest odds, not that it achieves anyt…

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ine…