A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Real friends are not those who stop you from crying but those who cry with you.

If someone tells you that you can't do it, then prove to yourself that you can. You don't need somebody else's word for it, you just need yours.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.