Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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.

All men are born free: just not for long.

It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.