Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

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.

Through me, I see you. Through you, I see me.

Aa is for animals, friends, not food. We don't eat our friends. They would find it quite rude!

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

God deceiveth thee not.