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.

The way to peace is not love, but Christ.

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not 'hot and happening.'

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

I would never put my job before my family.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.