The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

There, in the spaces between darkness and light, a sadness hangs in the air, invisible to the human eye yet heavy on the heart.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Collage is an important part of my everyday life. I always did it kind of secretly but then started my blog where I post things almost daily.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.