America means opportunity, freedom, power.

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.

He is the King with your consent, stop blaming and start making better choices.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.

Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.

Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.