Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

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.

Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.

If I ever did have a baby, it probably would eat people.

Crack is ruining the drug culture.

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

I enjoy tasting [beer]. But I'm not a drinker, period. With my schedule, I don't really have time.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.