The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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.

A simple thought can transform you forever. So cultivate beautiful thoughts, ugliness never.

I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some strength.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.