Do you wish the world were happy? / Then remember day by day, / Just to scatter seeds of kindness / As you pass along the way. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.  -Jimmy Carter

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde

We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -John W. Gardner

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. -Mohandas K. Gandhi

When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. -William Least Heat-Moon

What power has love but forgiveness? -William Carlos Williams

What Really Matters at the End of Life -B. J. Miller

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.  -Edward Abbey