Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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 you win friends, sometimes you lose friends. Both can help you to grow faster.

That's called business, let's shake hands and .... we just made one great deal.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.