The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

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.

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.