The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

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.

Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

In the end you have only you.

One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of.

We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.