He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

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.

Three essential keys (FAITH, HOPE and LOVE) will open the Heavens door.

I want to see the stats for how many crosses there have been; it's been incredulous

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

What's incredible is that I'm 75 and still working.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

It's kind of cool—and it makes me feel like a badass. I get more girls than my boyfriend. They always tweet me about my booty.

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.