The scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend.

Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.

Since by definition learning is change, when you learn nature's lessons, you are changed.

Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

I'm not the protagonist of a novel or anything...I'm just a normal college student who likes to read...But...If I were to write a book with me as tge main character...It would be......A tragedy.

Greatness must be measured by the transfer of success to future generations

I am afraid of the worst, but I am not sure what that is.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.