Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

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.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.