Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Race doesn't make a man

Don’t let them see you weak.

Our limitation is God’s opportunity

I think it's a cop-out to say I'm a Christian but I don't ever do anything...

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for