Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

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.

The path of righteousness of God is the way of life.

The mountain is never as big as it appears. You're never as small as you believe.

Be wary of what you do with the attention social media gives you

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

I intend to put them on the charts.

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.