Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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.

We can neither hurry nor hasten the works of God.

There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.

In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.

Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.