Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

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.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

When we are foolish God intervenes.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.