Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

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.

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.