First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

You need to find The Lord. He's around here somewhere.

James Dye

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Pearl S. Buck

If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it's shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I've never seen it since, but that doesn't matter. My soul is in the likeness of a jagged peak with a rock like a man standing on its summit, and snags of rock shaped like trolls along its spine. Screes defend it, although it's not quite inaccessible if you know the way up.

Margaret Elphinstone

Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl Buck

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

John M. McHugh

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

Elizabeth Gilbert

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Albert Camus

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles Dudley Warner

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

Isadora Duncan, My Life, ch. 5,

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies,

A prince is venison in heaven.

Martin Luther King Jr.