Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego

But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.