Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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.

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

The day you yearn greatly for in your life, will never come so easily as you think without great sacrifice.

I want to share in endless ways, My expression of love for you, I'm no longer the beast of burden, Twas lifted when I fell for you.

A charge to keep I have A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

There is but one way to learn to do a thing and that is to do it.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

Love is a greater mystery than death.

I look at it as a challenge, ... I'm not going to put too much added pressure on myself. I want to play in the NHL, and after that [happens], I can worry about things beyond that.

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.