"Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift."

“Don't try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.”

“Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it”

“I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.”

“People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?”

“If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.”

“There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.”

“What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.”

Source : Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

“I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.”