I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

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.

Sometimes falling apart is the bravest act of all

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.