If you accept life as a competition you will never be completely happy but if you accept life as a journey you will always be happy

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

There are many things a man will do, but betrayal for a price is not one of yours.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.