Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

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.

Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive actions.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.

I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.

For us to get to those huts and no one's home, it's going to be a kick to the nuts.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.