The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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.

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.