Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know how to properly use the currency of time.

Your voice is strongest when you remain firm, when you are not moved by your circumstance. For we must not permit others to define who we are or what we stand for.

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.

Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

That complete statement which is literature.