How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Work for your own soul's sake.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.

Singing is a lover's thing.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

New facts often trigger new ideas