Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

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.

Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.

A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she’s tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.

I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.

To decipher pure theory into intellectual practice is education.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.

I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun.