Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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.

Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

Originality is the death of mediocrity.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

No one will ever touch Elvis

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.