But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

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.

Life is only as colorful as the paintbox you choose to paint it with.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

It's important to get the facts straight, a lot of information out there isn't right.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

States are not moral agents.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.