He saw the truth and he felt something that he could not name.  He would not be a fool, but there was no harm in the dreaming.  And unquestionably, beyond all doubt, the dream and the romance that had lured him to the wilderness were here, hanging over him like the shadows of the great peaks.  His heart swelled with emotion when he thought of how the black and incessant despair of the past was gone.”
–Zane Grey  (The Rainbow Trail)

“And it will be said: ‘Build up, build up, prepare the road!  Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”
–Isaiah 57:14 (NLT)

Men rise on steppin’-stones of their dead selves to higher things.”
–Zane Grey  (The Mysterious Rider)

“To say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’  They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.”
–Isaiah 49:9 (NLT)

What does a name mean?  Nothin, until a man makes it mean something.”
–Louis L’Amour  (Passin’ Through)

“The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in the paths.  They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace.”
–Isaiah 59:8 (NLT)

Regrets are not actions.”
–Loren D. Estleman (The Hider)

“Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.”
–Jeremiah 6:25 (NLT)