Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

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.

Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing)

We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.