The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

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.

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

Luck always favors those who are bold.

I can't stand squealers, hit that guy!

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

And in stories, endings matter.

...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.

He leaned down until his lips brushed her ear. “I told you to stop flinching.” And then he bit her. A slow, painless nip but there were definitely teeth involved.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.