[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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.

When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.

Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.