It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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.

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

I really enjoy working physically.

If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.