The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

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.

Hope is what makes the human condition liveable

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

Playing in Italy was like being in a foreign country.

Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

The worst crime is faking it.

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular “hook” upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Virtue alone is true nobility.