Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

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.

Your purpose will fuel your hope.

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

I don't know what people think in making record is like. But basically, I got a bunch of spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, and the whole band was staying at my house and we had a ball.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

All art is self-portraiture.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.