Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

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.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

You can say no if that is more truthful than a resentful yes.

Thou must (in commanding and winning or serving and losing suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?

I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.