A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause

Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that's what I'm hearing. They're coming to check me out, make sure I'm cool. Which I'm not, so they'll be disappointed.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?" (Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.