How does a boy without a father grow up to be a man? How does he learn to make the hard decisions he's going to have to make in life, the ones only a man can teach?

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.

But he who feels too much, He soars in angels’ tears of joy...

You Can Trust. Yes, but Try to remember even Demons had their wings.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

I did my gospel record, but there was nothing really of it. Maybe a hundred people bought it. But it's one of those things on the internet that people find and they make into a big deal.

The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.