If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

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 due to God’s mercy, the time in God’s plan can be stretched or extended

I have a lust for life.

I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

My father always said, 'Bet on yourself.'

In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.

The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

Merely to exist is not enough.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."