The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

Believe yourself again and again to find yourself.

When you believe in yourself sufficiently and are confident that everything that you desire is inside you then you will possess the ability to produce all that you wish for.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.

A child of the new generation Refused to learn multiplication. He said 'Don't conclude That I'm stupid or rude; I am simply without motivation.'

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial