Our strength grows out of our weakness.

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.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

Everything needed for success has been placed into us from the beginning

Smiles are such a simple thing to give but means so much to many.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.