Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

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.

It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

Whatever does not change you specially makes you different.

In the absence of ancient hatreds, chauvinism can easily rustle up modern ones.

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

Man is basically an individual molecule of the God-Force.

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].