Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

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.

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

You don't go from a Yugo to a Benz, back to a Yugo.

It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date.

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.