A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

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.

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren’t.

Death is the principal limitator of opportunities, progress & life.

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.

I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.