People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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.

Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

I am a cigarette with a body attached to it

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself