A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

May I ask you a highly personal question?""It's what life does all the time.

If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.