"Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war."

“I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that.”

Source : "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2004.

“Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.”

“He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.”

“If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge. . . .”

“Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.”

“We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.”

“Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.”

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source : John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt