Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

For what we think upon, that we become.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

My happy thoughts help create my healthy body.

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.