If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

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.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

You get mad at me, you kick the tire, I don't get a bruise, the tire doesn't care, and you're the only one hurting. How's that working for you, Kip?

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.