Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

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.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.