Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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.

We are born free.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.