It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

He who is brave is free.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

You are almost never cool to your children.

The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but just looked like the same devil to me

Can't you see, Amber? Losing you would be like a stake to my heart.

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.

Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.