Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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.

Even if you can’t see the whole road ahead, you can ask for the one step that will lead you forward.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.