The land doesn’t belong to us; we belong to the land.

The powerful have always preyed on the powerless. That's how they became powerful in the first place.

Every life leaves behind a trail of evidence; the biographer is the detective who follows it.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.