The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

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.

But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.

Learn with great passion.Learn with great enthusiasm.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.

Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.