Reality is a sliding door.

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.

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.

It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care what you have to say.

Never build after you are five and forty have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

I just have a lot off different influences.