The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

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.

If you were a brand, would you buy yourself or keep shopping?

Every woman is as bitter as gall. But she has two good moments: one in bed, the other at her death.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

I accept the term extremist with pride.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.