Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

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.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

I may be wrong, but I doubt it.

It is a strange thing to realize... but our failures so often place us where we need to be.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

The people who didn't vote for [Donald Trump], didn't watch his rallies. They only know what the media said about him.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.