Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

when you live outside the law, you have to be flexible

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

I'll never get over the factthat the buildings all light up at night, and the night comes every nightand without regret we let it go.We sleep a little and we live.That's what we do.

But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.

Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.

You have no right to make jigsaws of people.

America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.